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NEWSPAPER 0R BOOK PROTECTOR. (Application filed July 17, 1897.)

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NEWSPAPER OR BOOK PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,339, dated July 12,1898.

Application filed July 17,1897. SGTR1N0- lllllnlllll.l (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY BUR- LAND, of Punta Gorda, in thecounty of De Soto and State of Florida, have invented anew and ImprovedNewspaper or Book Protector, of which the following is a full, clear,and eX act description.

The object of my invention is to provide a newspaper-protector or aprotector for books which when applied to a book or a magazine may bemade to protect those portions of the leaves which are ordinarilyexposed and which when applied to a newspaper may be made to protecteither an end or aside edge, or both, or all the open edges.

A further object of the invention is to provide a means of preventingthe fraudulent return of newspapers, periodicals, or books to thepublishers as unread and unused articles.

A further object of the invention is to so form the protector that allthe leaves of the book or newspaper may be prevented from beingdisclosed or the book or paper opened without mutilating the protectoror wherein any desired number of leaves may be protected and sealed, theothers being left free to be viewed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book to which the improvement isapplied. Fig. 2 is section through the book shown in Fig. l,illustrating the protectoras closed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of abook to which the protector is applied, illustrating aslightly-different manner of securing the ends of the protector. Fig. eis a section through the book shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspectiveview of the outside or wrapper sheet of a newspaper to which theinvention is applied. Fig. 6 is a View illustrating the folding of thewrapper-sheet shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a vertical section through thefolded sheet shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of afolded wrapper-sheet slightly -modified in its construction, and Fig. 9is a plan view of the wrapper-sheet shown in Fig. 8 folded out.

When the invention is applied to a book A, sundry of the leaves 10,preferably two of them, are made considerably wider at their unboundedges thanl the other leaves of the book, providing outwardly-extendingmarginal sections ll, and the projecting marginal sections l1arevseparated from the body or main portion of the leaves by lines ofserrations 13, orinstcad of serrations score-lines may be employed. Thescore-lines or serrations are so placed on the larger leaves that whenthe extended marginal port-ions are torn off said leaves will thenbe ofpractically the same dimensions as the other leaves of the book. Theopposing faces of the marginal portions ll of one or of both of theleaves are given a coating l la of an adhesive compoundas, for example,mucilage. When the book is comparatively thin, the projecting marginalportions 1l of the larger leaves will-be brought together and united bymeans of the aforesaid adhesive coating, as shown in Fig. 2. When,however, the book is quite thick, the projecting marginal portions ofthe larger leaves are carried over one another and over the edges of theordinary leaves between the larger ones, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, andthe marginal portions ll of the larger leaves are then secured together.

In order to facilitate the introduction of a knife or other implementbetween the edges of the ordinary leaves and the connected margins 11 ofthe larger leaves, a space 14 is left at the two front corners of thesaid larger leaves, as is also shown in Fig. 3.

When the invention is applied tol a newspaper B or like periodical, theoutside or wrapping sheet, as shown in Figs. S and 9, may be providedwith an extended continuous margin l5, separated from the true margin byperforations 16 or their equivalents, the inner faces of the extendedmargins being coated with an adhesive materiall'. Under thisconstruction after the inside sheets lhave been placed within theoutside sheet and the two leaves of said sheet have been carried oneover on the other the faces of the IOO extended margins of thewrapper-sheet hav ing the adhesive material applied will be broughttogether and will adhere to each other, rendering it impossible to gainaccess to the inclosed sheets until the extended margin of said sheetshas been torn off. Under such a construction the outside wrapper-sheetserves as an envelop. Instead of providing a continuous extended marginfor the wrapper-sheet, as above set forth, the wrappersheet may beprovided with an interrupted extended margin 18, which extended marginis formed, for example, at the upper edge of both of the leaves 21 and22 of the outside wrapper-sheet and at one side and at the bottom of theleaf 21, as shown particularly in Fig. 5. The extended margin 18 isseparated from the true margin by perforations 19, and the inner faces2O of the extended margin are covered with an adhesive material. Underthis formation of wrapper-sheet when the inner sheets have been placedin position the wrapper-sheet 22 is carried over upon the wrapper-sheet21 and the extended margins at the top of each of these leaves areunited by adhesion. The wrapper-sheet is then folded transversely, asshown in Figs. 6 and 7, and the said extended margin, which will then bebent upon itself, will have its muci` laged'surfaces brought inengagement and may be thus united, while what was the bottom extendedmargin 18 will be brought in engagement with the connected margin of thetwo leaves at the top and may be caused to adhere thereto. Under such aconstruction it is evident that persons having no intention ofpurchasing cannot look over books or newspapers, preventing sucharticles from becoming soiled or torn before being disposed of, and,further, unless the extended margins are intact or closed together whenthe books or papers are returned to the publisher the publisher need notaccept the articles, since it is fair to presume that they have beenread.

Having thus described my invention7 I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl l. A book, newspaper or periodical having sundry ofits leaves extended beyond the other leaves at the three free edges ofsuch other leaves, forming projecting margins, said inargins being ofsufficient length to overlap and being adapted for sealing engagement soas to completely conceal the contents of the book or the like betweensuch extended leaves, substantially as described.

2. A book, newspaper or periodical having sundry of its leaves at theunbound portions extended beyond the other leaves of the book, formingprojecting margins, the said projecting margins being arranged forsealing engagement and provided with perforations which outline the truemargins of said leaves, the extended margins of the leaves being alsoreduced in width at the corners to forni openings when the extendedmargin of one leaf is secured to the extended margin of another largeleaf of the book or paper, for the purpose specified.

3. A book or the like, having one of the inner leaves provided with amarginal extension projecting beyond the leaves of the book, and anouter leaf, having a like extension, said marginal extensions beingadapted for sealin g engagement with each other, whereby a portion ofthe book may be concealed from view, substantially as described.

4. A book, newspaper or periodical having sundry of its leaves extendedbeyond the other leaves of the book, forming projecting margins, saidmargins being arranged for sealing engagement, and being also reduced inwidth at the corners to form openings when the extended inargins of twoleaves are secured together, substantially as described.

VILLIAM HENRY BURLAND.

Vitnesses:

BE'r'roN BAssE'r'r, AUGUSTUS MAXWELL WILSON,

